The SBU detained a former people’s deputy in Kyiv, who, together with her accomplices, monthly “earned” up to $100 thousand from scammers.
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A former people’s deputy, who is now a member of the management team of the capital’s institute for preventive medicine, is involved in the deal.
According to the investigation, the official organized the mass production and sale of fictitious documents on obtaining a disability group due to occupational diseases.
According to the adviser to the head of the OP Sergei Leshchenko, we are talking about the deputy of the 8th convocation Irina Sysoenko from Samopomich. After the Council, Sysoenko found herself in the leadership of the Kyiv Institute of Preventive Medicine.
She attracted several doctors to the scheme, including from the Lviv region.
The main clients of the attackers were potential conscripts who planned to use forgery to deregister from the military register and illegally travel abroad. According to available data, the monthly illegal activities of the criminals led by the ex-deputy brought in a “profit” of almost 100 thousand US dollars.
This amount was distributed among all accomplices, including two of the organizer’s colleagues: the heads of departments of the medical institution, an occupational pathologist and the coordinator of the illegal activities of doctors in the Lviv region.
Also, several officials from medical and social expert commissions of the western region were involved in the “scheme”.
According to the investigation, the defendants acted as part of an organized criminal group and offered their clients a full package of documents to evade mobilization.
First, those who evaded were fictitiously registered for outpatient treatment, then they were “diagnosed” with an occupational disease, and then a disability group was assigned.
As a result of complex measures in Kyiv, the organizer of the scheme and her accomplice from the Lviv region, who gave her a kickback in the amount of 32 thousand US dollars, were detained in the hottest.
During searches at the places of work and residence of the defendants, more than 40 million UAH, medical documents and draft records including clients were discovered.
Based on the collected evidence, the organizer of the criminal group and four of its participants were informed of suspicion (in accordance with the crimes committed) under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
- Part 3 and Part 4 Art. 368 (acceptance of an offer or receipt of unlawful benefits by an official using the official position granted to him);
- Part 3 Art. 369-2 (acceptance of an offer, promise or receipt of unlawful benefits for oneself or a third party for influencing decision-making by a person authorized to perform state functions).
The investigation continues to establish all the circumstances of the crime and bring the perpetrators to justice.
The perpetrators face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Source: Racurs
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